Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . STUDIO OF R. SWAIN GIFFORD, NONQUITT, MASS. Blashfield has chosen as his country he has built a glass studio for thepainting of figures with outdoor effects, andon these lonely sands, almost as retired fromthe world as the Ionian Isles, many of his dec-orative classical designs, processional friezes,and goddesses with whirling drapery and float-ing hair have passed to canvas. Continuing our tour around the New Eng-land coast, we arrive at Nonquitt, near NewBedford,— a beach most appropriately named,for its waters see
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . STUDIO OF R. SWAIN GIFFORD, NONQUITT, MASS. Blashfield has chosen as his country he has built a glass studio for thepainting of figures with outdoor effects, andon these lonely sands, almost as retired fromthe world as the Ionian Isles, many of his dec-orative classical designs, processional friezes,and goddesses with whirling drapery and float-ing hair have passed to canvas. Continuing our tour around the New Eng-land coast, we arrive at Nonquitt, near NewBedford,— a beach most appropriately named,for its waters seem to possess the magical re-turn-compelling property of the Fountain ofTrevi. Neighbors both in winter and sum-mer, and friends all the year round, areMessrs. Swain Gifford and William Gifford has painted here for twenty years ago he established a summer homehere, and five years since commissioned , the Boston architect, to build hisVol. XXX.—91. flat reaches appeal to him strongly throughtheir windy desolateness. A low, gray
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